Update:Tired, but headed to the park with Chris this morning. This will be the last day of fishing until the end of the week when he returns from Ft. Bragg for four more days of fishing. He has caught lots of trout and a few smallmouth. Yesterday was spent at the South Holston, the day before in the park, the evening before that in Sevierville on the Little Pigeon River chasing smallmouths.

He caught about thirty rainbows and brook trout in the Smokies day before yesterday before stopping to focus on big browns later in the day. He managed only a small brown. I'm sure he could of doubled the number of trout caught if we hadn't of spent three of the best hours of the day taking a shot at the big brown. Did great at the South Holston but I'm out of time and headed to the park for another day of great fishing.

Needle StoneflyAdults(Leuctridae Family of Stoneflies)The adults deposit their eggs during the day usually in the afternoons and probably during the evenings. Fishing an imitation of the eggs layers is almost like fishing a mayfly dun or spinner. You can use a larger imitation than the adults because they are always fluttering just above the surface and actually touch the surface with their wings still fluttering.

There is an amazing difference in the way these stoneflies look flying than they do when they are not flying. They look much like caddisflies in the air but as you can see, they are very narrow and long, tiny flies that remotely resemble pine needles. Flying they look much larger than they actually are. We suspect many anglers think these stoneflies are caddisflies and a caddisfly imitation may very well work for the ovipositing females.

Even though these are sometimes called "Black Rolled Winged Stoneflies", they are mostly dark brown. We have been able to catch trout imitating the egg layers every time we have tried. It is common to see trout eating them on the surface in the fall months. It seems most of the activity is in the high elevation streams although you will find them everywhere there is fast water.

You want to present the adult imitation where you see the adults depositing their eggs. They do that in the same type of water they hatch in. I vary the presentation depending on the circumstances. The important thing is just to get the fly where the action is. I do use a dead drift. Do try to add action to the fly. You may just scare trout away. The real adults do all their maneuvering above the water, not on the surface.